Fiery chef Gordon Ramsay has announced that the latest series of Kitchen Nightmares will also be the last – as he brings the Bafta and Emmy-award winning programme to a close.
Most winning programme of the week was undoubtedly A World Without Down's Syndrome?, in which Sally Phillips, with quizzical wit and just the right salting of lip-trembling anger, asked whether we're right to hail with such a blizzard of approbation a new non-invasive test for pregnant mothers.
He is best known for his role as Gavin in the BBC comedy series Gavin and Stacey, which, following a quiet-ish initial run on BBC3, became last year's cult TV hit, winning programme of the year at the Baftas, and drawing 7 million viewers for its Christmas special.
He has over 30 years experience in the broadcast television industry beginning at Thames Television followed by Executive Producing, producing and directing many award winning programmes across genres and channels.
The goal won BBC programme Match of the Day's "Goal of the Month", and placed second in the programme's "Goal of the Season" competition.
"I said I was homosexual and I still won the programme in a country that is homophobic".
In a hat-trick of wins for Channel 4, it also won the programme innovation award for The Murder Trial, made by Windfall Films.
Monkey's speech of the night at the Royal Television Society journalism awards on Wednesday in London was from Mark Austin after ITV's News at Ten won news programme of the year.
While some may argue that this may be precisely what has won the programme such an enormous mainstream audience, Sting's other argument, that The X Factor has "put music back decades", is more serious.
And it is that kind of detail that has won the programme the inaugural Ethical Award for Film and Television (with Bafta and the Bafta Albert Consortium, the production industry's leader on sustainability).
